Tag Archives: Silicon Valley

The Murder Machine

Posted on January 9, 2026 by camelotkidd

I’ve always wondered about the hype around AI but it’s become clear what its true role will be–surveillance, counterinsurgency and murder. Israel is a world leader in high-tech and AI, but much of it was developed with the blood and … Continue reading →

Posted in anti-imperialism, deep state, feral elite | Tagged AI, Chalmers Johnson, deep state, Donald Trump, Israel, Silicon Valley, Surveillance Valley: The Secret Military History of the Internet, The Phoenix Program, Unit 8200 | Leave a comment

Hasbara has been?

Posted on November 25, 2025 by camelotkidd

Israeli efforts at propagandizing Americans have taken a big hit as more and more people see and recoil from the ongoing Israel genocide in Gaza and pogrom in the West Bank. In response, pro-Israeli’s are cranking the Hasbara up to 11 … Continue reading →

Posted in anti-imperialism, deep state, neoconservatives, propaganda | Tagged Caitlin Johnstone, Donald Trump, genocide, Hasbara, Israel, propaganda, Silicon Valley | Leave a comment

Too Big to Fail

Posted on November 13, 2025 by camelotkidd

Is AI too big to fail? The question has come to the forefront now that Wall Street and big tech firms are inflating a massive AI bubble in the hopes that it will somehow work out, but if it doesn’t, … Continue reading →

Posted in deep state, feral elite, neoliberalism, propaganda | Tagged China, Donald Trump, Gary Marcus, Matt Stoller, OpenAI, Silicon Valley, Wall Street | Leave a comment

How They Operate

Posted on September 24, 2025 by camelotkidd

A perfect world for the banksters and tech-bros would be where all the profits accrue to them while all the costs fall on the society they claim doesn’t exist. Unfortunately, that’s kinda where we are at. Even worse, this unbearable … Continue reading →

Posted in feral elite, neofeudalism, neoliberalism | Tagged neoliberalism, oligarchy, plutocracy, Silicon Valley, Wall Street | Leave a comment

Concrete material benefits

Posted on December 31, 2024 by camelotkidd

The Trump-Vance administration can engineer a political transformation if they can provide concrete material benefits to working-class Americans, who have seen their standard and quality of living collapse. If so, Trump has an opportunity to consolidate a durable realignment of … Continue reading →

Posted in feral elite, neofeudalism | Tagged Donald Trump, Elon Musk, H-1B, neoliberalism, propaganda, Silicon Valley, Wall Street | Leave a comment

Is that all there is?

Posted on June 14, 2018 by camelotkidd

Gazing around our world it’s clear that neoliberalism has narrowed the possibilities. Is that all there is? Massive student debts, opioid addiction, homelessness and suicides. An economy based largely on scams and fraud, that leaves the vast majority of … Continue reading →

Posted in neofeudalism, neoliberals | Tagged 2016 election, Bain Capital, culture of fraud, Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, neoliberal economic policies, neoliberalism, precariat, Silicon Valley, sociopathic elite, Wall Street, wall street crash | Leave a comment

Surveillance is the business model

Posted on March 8, 2018 by camelotkidd

In Surveillance Valley, Yasha Levine, challenges conventional wisdom and says that the Internet was actually founded by the US government as part of their counterinsurgency program in Vietnam. The US government wanted to build a connected computer system that … Continue reading →

Posted in neofeudalism, neoliberals | Tagged Cold War, control, corporate censorship is government censorship, counterinsurgency, cryptography, fake news, gig economy, Gil-Scott Herron, Internet, One Market Under God, precariat, privacy apps, propaganda, Signal, Silicon Valley, social media, surveillance, Surveillance Valley: The Secret Military History of the Internet, The Phoenix Program, The Revolution Will not be Televised, Thomas Frank, Tor, Vietnam, Yasha Levine | Leave a comment

Concentrated

Posted on June 26, 2017 by camelotkidd

Amazon’s takeover of Whole Foods has raised alarms about economic concentration. No corporation epitomizes monopoly better than Amazon, who’s business model is predicated on losing money with their super-low prices in order to capture market share. Their dominant position then … Continue reading →

Posted in neofeudalism, neoliberals | Tagged 1984, Amazon, Barak Obama, Bill Clinton, corporate media, corporate propaganda, corporations, Democratic Party, Democrats, Donald Trump, economic concentration, George Orwell, high-tech, Jeff Bezos, libertarians, Listen Liberal, Matt Stoller, monopolies, neofeudal, neoliberal, new economy, political/economy, rent seeking, Silicon Valley, Thomas Frank, washington post, Whole Foods | Leave a comment

Behind the throne

Posted on January 31, 2017 by camelotkidd

Making sense of the Trump presidency will be challenging. It’s a new environment with all preconceived notions of the American political system vanishing. Up is down and down is up. For example, liberals, who traditionally viewed the CIA as … Continue reading →

Posted in neoconservatives, neoliberals | Tagged C. Wright Mills, CIA, Color Revolutions, deep state, deep state network, Donald Trump, figurehead, isolationist, liberal, Mike Lofgren, Mike Pence, military industrial complex, oligarchy, populist, power elite, PR, protectionist, Silicon Valley, TPP, US system of oligarchy, Wall Street, year of living dangerously | Leave a comment

Contradictions

Posted on January 12, 2016 by camelotkidd

What do secret wars, regime change, spying on Americans, and bailouts for Wall Street have in common? They’re all policies of the deep state, according to Mike Lofgren, the Republican congressional staffer who wrote the groundbreaking essay Anatomy of a … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged anti-intellectuallism, corporations, deep state, Enlightenment, ferel elite, greedy/ideology, invasion of Iraq, Mike Lofgren, military industrial complex, no-nothings, secret government, Silicon Valley, Wall Street | Leave a comment